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Comment Re: Dumping isn’t just selling cheap / subsi (Score 1) 147

The Americans seem to have a different definition.
For example, they've had tariffs on Canadian soft wood lumber for decades due to the difference in how the lumber industry works in the 2 nations. America mostly gets its lumber from private land, while Canada, or at least BC, gets its lumber from Crown land (Provincial Crown) where the industry pays stumpage, a percent of the value, on the trees.
This they call dumping and while international tribunes have found that it isn't dumping and the tariffs are unfair, those tariffs have been their for decades, sometimes going up and sometimes going down and currently 50%. (Might be 35%)
The softwood lobby in America is strong, stronger then the house building lobby who need BC's lumber as America can't produce enough.
There's other examples of Trump's tariffs that are supposed to be about dumping such as Aluminium.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=soft...

Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 2) 100

Looks at the hundreds of billions being funneled into AI research with no profit in sight

My guess: It's a scam, built on pre-existing 'bot technology.

When it's all done with, the "investors" will have a huge tax write off for their losses plus some neat new data centers, high end servers and utility resources to go into Bitcoin mining big time.

Comment Re:Bye Bye free Apps. (Score 1) 75

Yes. And no.

Free apps will continue. As long as they are actually free. Anything that owes (owed?) Apple that 27% of in-app sales or other revenue sources is either not free. Or written by a very generous developer. Apple gots ta' get paid.

I would expect "developers fees" to be considered at some stage

What do you think the current 27% fee is? Maybe replaced with a fee for Apple Store server space and installation bandwidth. That's what the now defunct Apple Tax supposedly covered. But the in-app sales revenue stream doesn't necessarily run through Apple systems. And presents no cost to them.

Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 2) 100

Industrial R&D is important, but it is in a distrant third place with respect to importance to US scientific leadership after (1) Universities operating with federal grants and (2) Federal research institutions.

It's hard to convince politicians with a zero sum mentality that the kind of public research that benefits humanity also benefits US competitiveness. The mindset shows in launching a new citizenship program for anyone who pays a million bucks while at the same time discouraging foreign graduate students from attending universtiy in the US or even continuing their university careers here. On average each talented graduate student admitted to the US to attend and elite university does way more than someone who could just buy their way in.

Comment Re:TL;DR: Gotta keep the bubble going (Score 1) 126

Yes, it belongs to Congress, not the President. Executive orders are literally orders given by the President to the executive branch of the federal government.

So the effectiveness of an executive order is very questionable in this case. If a state passes a law, what's the executive order going to do? Send the Army to invade? What could go wrong?

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